Posts by davefb

I'd rather he didn't break the record

Kittingers record is so insane that it should stand for 'all time'. Good luck to him though.

yes but

will samsung have to remove their claims for 'decent 3d picture'. Can't stand those active screens, flicker like maad. So I definately take my cinema 3d , even with lower resolution..

Are any sources actually 1080p? The display from the sky box certainly isn't full resolution is it?

theres a reason peoples phones used to do this

isn't it from the mac this patent?

Does this mean normally it's cross licensed ?

'iphones ask'

well yes, when you plug the iphone into itunes for the first time, it has some warning about 'diagnostics and such' , so obviously you say 'nah'.

which is annoying, because those diagnostics appear to be the crash logs generated by apps... I'm guessing thats why whilst we have a few users complaining about crashing apps, we only have one uploaded crash report..

as for the android logging, has anyone shown it actually sending the info it logs , because it does just seem to be the adb logcat output..

tbh my recollection is

that windows had loads of 'workarounds' to get things like word perfect to work, because they'd accessed hidden features ( rightly or wrongly , its always a dangerous thing to do). then let all that lead they had disappear by being more bothered about running to the lawyers instead of fixing bugs or rewriting code.

I'm sort of confused by the 'encouraged to use' then 'pulled' stuff.. Did everyone else have the same problem? It just seems like the usual issues that happen on the roll out of a new os, why was it seemingly only word perfect that had problems?

In fact as someone has already said, the pre-release are in m$ best interest to get software working, otherwise why would people buy windows?

'it really is surprising'

err, no it isn't. It isn't surprising at all in any way shape or form..

Frankly it's surprising it isn't a bigger drop off... Perhaps if ofcom stopped this idiotic chasing of 'advertising' max rates and concentrated on contention ratio's there might be a change.

what good is a cb radio?

you'd have to have an employee at the other end sat waiting for any reports.

I don't get what the hassle is, the hassle should be if the apps on the devices aren't fit for purpose ( like the one mentioned where it requires a database connection at the time, that's obviously not fit for purpose)..

Seems like an interesting idea and even an iPad is a bit of a tiny splash compared to what it potentially COULD save...

'guido'

Erm,

with a name like guido fawkes, you'd have thought he was the last person to wish for capital punishment. However since he seems in favour of it, who are we to get in the way..

isnt this bloomin obvious

Due to the way adsl works and the drop off?

Unless they actually can change the laws of physics?

'thin end of the wedge'

good grief, I really can't believe people are seeing this as some sort of amazing cry for freedom that they can call a dog an extremely offensive name. Is this the kindergarten?

As for 'british forget those yanks' , I believe what you mean to say is 'commonwealth and allies' ie RAF + canadian and new zealanders+ ?.

It's one thing to moan about 'americans taking our glory' but to then repeat the error ...

People were racist in the past, the film is not about casual racism and how bad it was, its about the bombing raid, the dog gets renamed.

Always remember reading a battered old 617 squadron book about the raid and later tallboy missions, the death rate on that raid is horrific , that's what we should be talking about , the stoic bravery, the political need for a victory... Hell ,even the crossword puzzles.. Not Nigger RIP..

how rediculous, intel making ARM chips

err without calling them by the name they used to have strongArm (via a lawsuit) and XScale..

Can't see ARM merging with AMD, why would they? AMD are now fabless so they don't gain a fab, amd just license an ARM design like everyone else...

doses

the difference between 'they got 170 msieverts' and 'water of a dose of 6 or 7' is because of the different radiation, surely?

Their dose meters are worn and mainly detect gamma rays, they wouldn't see much of the beta-ray (electrons) that they got from allowing water into their boots. So the discrepancy isn't that unexpected is it?

Beta gets stopped by the tiniest of things, but they won't be well off if they got any of that water into their bloodstream, though again, surely only a tiny fraction would get into the bloodstream? I guess you'd compare with a blacksmith putting his hand on some hot iron ? external burns, but should be non-life threatening.

tepco have given out lots of information, what they haven't done is given it out in technical form but watered down for journalists. I suspect other reasons they haven't said wether things like 'what the real damage is to the core' is , because it's an extremely damaged nuclear reactor in the middle of a disaster zone that has massive amounts of radiation near it...

who's gunna go near it to measure it?

dont read too much into the 'nuclear vessel' moving away.

if it's low level sensors were going off due to external source, then it probably has to move to another area , otherwise it won't be able to tell if the issue was local.

One of the 'good things' is that the gases are going offshore rather than towards populated areas.

the stuff they dropped off

whilst it might have been water, it's also been reported that they supplied extra batteries. which sort of makes more sense.

re hoover.

well actually, thats why a lot of this trademark stuff goes on, because Hoover DID lose a lot of rights by not protecting its name (or maybe not protecting it well enough) when people used to use the term generically, .. It's now a 'generic trademark' ( according to wiki)

others are aspirin , heroin and lino ( however that's spelt).

And as for '.exe' shop, I'm guessing this is from the 'nothing was invented before steve' school of thought, application is the generic term and predates things like .com or .exe or .app or .bat or (etc). You would typically have system software and application software.

grumble

guess who upgraded his smartphone a month before the 'one' deal came out ?

bah, 18months left on that one :(... still I don't go over the 500mb anyway, so I dont care :)

*more* hero

'works fine' ,, well it did , till I saw what it should look like... I'd say it was a texture space/memory problem.. Tbh the phone is more than capable so I don't understand why they don't have a 'lower memory footprint' version........ I'll sort it for them if they want :)

'why were they looking'

in general its the competitor channels who complain.

at least that was the answer I found when I read on the net (ofcom ruling) about a channel showing 'a little bit too much flesh' at about 2am.

These arent little companies

These are patents from big companies(in some cases), bought ( due to going bust ?) by trolls , who then threaten big companies after the fact ( i mean for crying out loud, E71 is named in this case) who find it easier to pay up.

Which means they then go for the next company.

The trolls have not done any R&D , well I supposed except for some patent-lawyer-research.

Theres probably no risk either, because it isn't like they're a big manufactoring company who has something to lose in a court case.

and yet

As a coder with lots of lower level skills I can't get anywhere near any of these 'plush jobs' because recruiters see no value in c or c++ and want Java or this years flavour of the month 'script' language ;)..

Oh well, back to flash and facebook...

I blame recruiters ;)

probably explains

why all the game mechanics involve getting friends , the more the merrier involved with the game. Oh of course 'we didnt know' , yeah, right...

hang on , this isnt an arm to x86 tool at all

if the description is correct. Its a tool for the source code, not the 'machine code'. It just marks out what function calls need to change and what to change em to.

Which is what you'd want, not a low level 'change this instruction to this'..

Of course, with some developer setups, you'd have a cross platform codeset anyway.. (with as little obj-c in it as possible ;) )..

saw this on

a bbc program mainly about the ''faked rear end accidents' issue.

On that, they spoke about people stealing from cars during the night, but leaving one of the devices on so that people think they've locked their cars , but actually haven't. They showed a woman who'd been very suspicious as she kept coming back to the car unlocked after thinking 'i'm sure i pipped it' when she spoke to neighbours, they'd been robbed with the same 'but I was sure I locked it'

Basically , CHECK it's actually locked by pulling on the handle if you're not sure...

iirc, it's some gps jammers that are legitimately sold in other countries, but can be bought on ebay for peanuts that can work...